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Legal Orders under Pressure: Non-Western Experiences of Legal Transformations in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Nov. 24, 2022

Symposium of the research group Translations & Transitions, organised by the Chair for Globalisation and Legal Pluralism at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History, University of Vienna, together with the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Theory.

Date: 7 - 9 December 2022
Place: Online
Deadline for registration: 1 December 2022

From the mid-19th century onwards, many regions underwent fundamental legal changes by following Western models. Countries such as the Ottoman Empire, Japan, China, Siam and Ethiopia were subject to extraterritoriality as the most prominent form of pressure, but also in other non-colonized countries, internal and external diplomatic or economic pressures led to legal reforms.
The symposium offers a platform for gaining a better understanding of the characteristics of the legal translations and transformations that took place in these spaces under pressure from the Western European powers. Considering a broad scope of different countries and settings allows us to rethink the alleged universalisation of Western European law in the 19th and early 20th centuries. By looking at the different experiences of translation and invention, radical transition and complex continuities, resistance and internal conflicts, the symposium aims to contribute to a broader framework of current research that reassesses what legal ‘modernity’ and ‘the West’ meant. By connecting legal histories that have mostly been studied in isolation from one another, and by analysing them against the backdrop of global imperialism and colonialism, the symposium offers the opportunity to reconsider historiographical narratives.

Program

Wednesday, 7th December 2022 (CET time zone)
12:00–12:30 Welcome
12:30–13:45 Opening Keynote & Discussion
13:45–14:00 Break
14:00–15:30 PANEL 1: NEGOTIATING SOVEREIGNTIES
15:30–15:45 Break
15:45–17:15 PANEL 2: ENCOUNTERS OF IDEAS

Thursday, 8th December 2022 (CET time zone)
12:00–13:15 Keynote & Discussion
13:15–13:30 Break
13:30–15:00 PANEL 3: RECONFIGURING PUNISHMENT
15:00–15:15 Break
15:15–16:45 PANEL 4: USING INTERNATIONAL LAW

Friday, 9th December 2022 (CET time zone)
12:00–13:30 PANEL 5: LAW, SOCIETY, AND RESISTANCE
13:30–13:45 Break
13:45–15:15 PANEL 6: RULING THE PERIPHERY AND THE ROLE OF VIOLENCE
15:15–15:30 Break
15:30–17:00 CONCLUDING SESSION

Contact

hk-translations-transitions@lhlt.mpg.de

https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/3183961/event-22-12-07-translations-and-transitions-online-symposium.html


Source: Legal Orders under Pressure: Non-Western Experiences of Legal Transformations in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries. In: H-Soz-Kult, 14.11.2022, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-131399>.